"Clark, do you still feel weak?"
On their second day at school, Dilos brought Clark and Chloe to the Danger Room. First, to give them some basic training; second, to confirm a few things.
Clark looked at the palm-sized piece of Kryptonite held before him, its green glow lighting up the moment it approached him, and swallowed nervously. But after a few seconds, he strangely realized that nothing had happened to him.
"Strange..." Clark instinctively took the Green Kryptonite from Dilos's hand and weighed it in his palm. The discomfort, crippling pain, and weakness he had always suffered whenever he encountered Green Kryptonite seemed to have vanished forever.
To prove it, he even picked up a thin steel plate Dilos had prepared and squeezed it. With that squeeze, the steel plate crumpled easily in his hand.
"Wait, try this too."
Seeing this, Dilos nodded and quickly handed Clark a half-meter-thick alloy steel plate from beside him. "Try this. See if you can bend it."
"Okay."
Clark nodded. After putting away the Green Kryptonite, he placed both hands on the plate. This time, it took him quite a while to crush the steel plate.
Even so, it did nothing to dampen Clark's mood.
"This thing doesn't affect me anymore..."
Clark looked at his body, which showed no abnormalities whatsoever, with delighted surprise, then turned to Dilos. "How did you do it?"
"It's not about how I did it."
Dilos shook his head. "What you should be thinking about is what's wrong inside Smallville."
At that, Clark's expression stiffened. Even Chloe beside him fell silent.
It was not just Chloe. Before Clark came here, Dilos had already told him about his Kryptonian identity and the conspiracy theory surrounding Krypton.
At first, Clark had not believed it. But persuaded by Dilos's various arguments,